The Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) is 30 years old and will be celebrating at its Open Day on Tuesday 12 July. The Open Day will take place at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA, Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD) from 2pm and a full programme can be found on the PLS website. The Open Day will be followed by a drinks reception.
To confirm your free place, contact Imogen Forbes at PLS (020 7299 7732 or email).
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Monday, 4 July 2011
Monday, 13 June 2011
ALPSP seeks part time Events & Database Administrator
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has a vacancy for a part-time Events and Database Administrator (30 hours/4 days per week), to assist with the organisation of its UK events programme and management of its information services. (Full details: http://bit.ly/k6Wmok)
Reporting to the Senior Coordinator, Events and Information Systems, you will assist in the organisation of UK events, management of our database and website systems, coordinate ALPSP presence at exhibitions and other conferences and administer the supply and storage of publicity materials.
ALPSP staff are home-workers so you will be expected to work under minimal supervision, but in close liaison with other members of the team. This is a customer-facing role, therefore you will need exceptional communication skills combined with good time management and organisational skills. Experience of event/exhibition organisation is essential. Good computer skills are highly desirable and familiarity with database administration would be advantageous.
ALPSP UK events are primarily organised in and around the London area, so the ability to travel easily to London is essential. The ALPSP International Conference will also involve overnight stays.
The salary for this position is circa £25,000, pro rata, depending on experience.
If you would like to find out more, contact Lesley Ogg (email events@alpsp.org; telephone 01245 260571). To be considered for this post, please send a CV with covering letter outlining your suitability for this position by email to events@alpsp.org.
The closing date for applications is Thursday 30 June 2011 and interviews will be held on Wednesday 20 July (in central London).
Reporting to the Senior Coordinator, Events and Information Systems, you will assist in the organisation of UK events, management of our database and website systems, coordinate ALPSP presence at exhibitions and other conferences and administer the supply and storage of publicity materials.
ALPSP staff are home-workers so you will be expected to work under minimal supervision, but in close liaison with other members of the team. This is a customer-facing role, therefore you will need exceptional communication skills combined with good time management and organisational skills. Experience of event/exhibition organisation is essential. Good computer skills are highly desirable and familiarity with database administration would be advantageous.
ALPSP UK events are primarily organised in and around the London area, so the ability to travel easily to London is essential. The ALPSP International Conference will also involve overnight stays.
The salary for this position is circa £25,000, pro rata, depending on experience.
If you would like to find out more, contact Lesley Ogg (email events@alpsp.org; telephone 01245 260571). To be considered for this post, please send a CV with covering letter outlining your suitability for this position by email to events@alpsp.org.
The closing date for applications is Thursday 30 June 2011 and interviews will be held on Wednesday 20 July (in central London).
Monday, 4 April 2011
SAGE announces library travel grant for ALPSP International Conference
SAGE has supported the ALPSP International Conference as silver sponsor since the first meeting in 2008. This new travel grant will offer a free place at the conference for a librarian or information professional, including entry to the ALPSP awards dinner, travel within the UK and accommodation for one person. This year's conference will be held at Heythrop Park near Oxford UK from 14-16 September.
SAGE will be running a competition to win the sponsored place, with entries submitted either via Twitter or email. To enter, librarians must answer the following question in 140 characters or less:
Question: Why should librarians be talking to publishers in 2011?
Completed answers should be sent to @SAGElibraryNews tagged with #SAGEALPSP or email to events@sagepub.co.uk by 27 May 2011. Further terms and conditions can be found at www.sagepub.co.uk/alpsp2011.
Monday, 28 March 2011
ALPSP Seminars - tell us what you think
As part of its professional development activities, ALPSP organises seminars for its members and others in the scholarly publishing and information world. We endeavour to make these as relevant and useful as we can but would value your feedback. Please let us know how we're doing and how you think we might improve the seminars by completing this short survey.
If you complete the survey before 21 April you'll have the chance to win one of two places on an ALPSP seminar, webinar, training course or eLearning course of your choice.
Please encourage your colleagues to complete the survey too - it will only take a few minutes.
Monday, 24 January 2011
HERE AND NOW: The Digital and Ebook Market 2011
Half day seminar organised by the Publishers Association on the current ebook market
Wednesday 9th February
Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London
8.30am for registration and breakfast
9.00am – 12.30pm : Seminar
Chaired by David Roth-Ey, Digital Director at HarperCollins, the seminar will reveal the very latest research on device and ebook buying habits in the UK. Speakers will include from the US Michael Tamblyn, Kobo, Peter Balis, John Wiley & Sons, and Theresa Horner, Barnes & Noble. Richard Mollet, CEO of the Publishers Association will give the keynote, followed by an overview of the UK and US markets by Jo Henry, BML. We then see 2 expert panels led by Sara Lloyd, Digital Director, Pan Macmillan and Fionnuala Duggan, Digital Director of Random House profiling the US ebook market and looking ahead at the international and UK ebook markets.
This is a very this low cost and content rich seminar over a half a day, and one not to be missed if you are involved or interested in the ebook market.
To register please go to www.publishers.org.uk/events
Wednesday 9th February
Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London
8.30am for registration and breakfast
9.00am – 12.30pm : Seminar
Chaired by David Roth-Ey, Digital Director at HarperCollins, the seminar will reveal the very latest research on device and ebook buying habits in the UK. Speakers will include from the US Michael Tamblyn, Kobo, Peter Balis, John Wiley & Sons, and Theresa Horner, Barnes & Noble. Richard Mollet, CEO of the Publishers Association will give the keynote, followed by an overview of the UK and US markets by Jo Henry, BML. We then see 2 expert panels led by Sara Lloyd, Digital Director, Pan Macmillan and Fionnuala Duggan, Digital Director of Random House profiling the US ebook market and looking ahead at the international and UK ebook markets.
This is a very this low cost and content rich seminar over a half a day, and one not to be missed if you are involved or interested in the ebook market.
To register please go to www.publishers.org.uk/events
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Renew Training
Technology has removed the barriers between production, editorial, marketing, sales, customer services and most importantly – the customers. Renew Training’s Understanding E-Journal Technology course is aimed at anyone in working in these departments and will help them connect with their customers and better understand their requirements.
Many publishing companies routinely send all their customer facing staff on Renew Training’s courses and 100% of course delegates have said they would recommend this course to others in their organisations.
Delegates will gain a business-level grounding in e-journal delivery technologies, gain greater insight into customers' technical and business requirements and better understand the role technology plays in e-journal deployment and discoverability. The course will educate attendees about key issues affecting the delivery of e-journals and how these affect licensing, customer service and even pricing. Participants will also learn what necessitated technological change in libraries and publishers and how to solve some of the key problems posed by library technologies such as link servers, A-Z lists, federated search, web scale discovery, DOIs, OpenURL, Athens and Shibboleth
Courses will be held in London on Tuesday 15th February, 2011, Washington DC on 14th March and Philadelphia on 16th March.
Visit http://www.renewtraining.com/schedule.htm for more information and to book a place. Members of ALPSP, ASA, and SSP are eligible for affiliate discounts.
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
New prize from Routledge commemorates former editor of 'The Round Table'
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
13 December 2010
New prize from Routledge commemorates former editor of
‘The Round Table’
Routledge has donated to Britain’s oldest international affairs journal, The Round Table, an annual prize in memory of Peter Lyon, the journal’s editor from 1983 to 2004. The £1,000 award will be for the best article relating to policy and the contemporary Commonwealth that the journal has published during the previous calendar year.
The first award of the ‘Peter Lyon Memorial Prize’ will be made in early 2012. All articles appearing in The Round Table during 2011 that contain a significant emphasis on policy and the Commonwealth will automatically become entrants for the prize. The journal’s editor will select the winner, in consultation with Routledge and the journal’s editorial and international advisory boards.
Peter Lyon (1934-2010) was a leading expert on the Commonwealth and bridged the divide between academia and policy-making. He was Reader in International Relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and, while editor of The Round Table, wrote almost 100 editorials and articles for the journal about issues affecting the Commonwealth.
Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, paid tribute to Peter Lyon as an integral part of the Commonwealth family, whose “knowledge of the Commonwealth on five continents was second to none”.
Sir Shridath Ramphal, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1975 to 1990, said: “Peter Lyon's unique blend of academia and the real world was dedicated to the service of the Commonwealth…… The whole Commonwealth is in his debt for his superlative work at The Round Table….. His contributions are immense and imperishable. Memorialised, they will help to inspire the Commonwealth to fulfilment of the great goals he saw for it.”
Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1990 to 2000, said: “Peter Lyon will long be remembered for his sustained intellectual contribution to the evolution of the Commonwealth. He has left a worthy legacy, not only at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and The Round Table, but also at the many forums where he often contributed to public discourse on the Commonwealth.”
Sir Don McKinnon, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 2000 to 2008, said: “Peter Lyon’s death is a loss for the whole Commonwealth. He was an almost unrivalled authority on Commonwealth issues and had a fine mind for its history.”
Founded in 1910, The Round Table provides analysis and commentary on all aspects of international affairs. The journal is a major source of coverage of policy issues concerning the contemporary Commonwealth and its role in international relations. It combines informed scholarship, opinion, and judgement, and draws its authors and readership from the worlds of government, business, finance and academe.
To submit or propose an article for publication in The Round Table, contact the Editor, Dr Venkat Iyer, at the School of Law, University of Ulster, Jordanstown campus, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB, or e-mail him at theroundtable@hotmail.co.uk.
Routledge, the foremost global publisher of policy-relevant books and journals in the Social Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious International Publisher of the Year award by the International Printers Network for the environmental sustainability of its publishing programmes. For further information please contact Jennifer McMillan, Library Marketing Manager, Taylor & Francis: Jennifer.McMillan@tandf.co.uk
Further information on The Round Table is available from www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ctrt.
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Media contact: Andrea Hutchinson, Marketing Executive
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN.
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 017 5344 Fax: +44 (0) 207 017 6713
Email: Andrea.Hutchinson@tandf.co.uk Website: www.informaworld.com/politicsandir
13 December 2010
New prize from Routledge commemorates former editor of
‘The Round Table’
Routledge has donated to Britain’s oldest international affairs journal, The Round Table, an annual prize in memory of Peter Lyon, the journal’s editor from 1983 to 2004. The £1,000 award will be for the best article relating to policy and the contemporary Commonwealth that the journal has published during the previous calendar year.
The first award of the ‘Peter Lyon Memorial Prize’ will be made in early 2012. All articles appearing in The Round Table during 2011 that contain a significant emphasis on policy and the Commonwealth will automatically become entrants for the prize. The journal’s editor will select the winner, in consultation with Routledge and the journal’s editorial and international advisory boards.
Peter Lyon (1934-2010) was a leading expert on the Commonwealth and bridged the divide between academia and policy-making. He was Reader in International Relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and, while editor of The Round Table, wrote almost 100 editorials and articles for the journal about issues affecting the Commonwealth.
Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, paid tribute to Peter Lyon as an integral part of the Commonwealth family, whose “knowledge of the Commonwealth on five continents was second to none”.
Sir Shridath Ramphal, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1975 to 1990, said: “Peter Lyon's unique blend of academia and the real world was dedicated to the service of the Commonwealth…… The whole Commonwealth is in his debt for his superlative work at The Round Table….. His contributions are immense and imperishable. Memorialised, they will help to inspire the Commonwealth to fulfilment of the great goals he saw for it.”
Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1990 to 2000, said: “Peter Lyon will long be remembered for his sustained intellectual contribution to the evolution of the Commonwealth. He has left a worthy legacy, not only at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and The Round Table, but also at the many forums where he often contributed to public discourse on the Commonwealth.”
Sir Don McKinnon, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 2000 to 2008, said: “Peter Lyon’s death is a loss for the whole Commonwealth. He was an almost unrivalled authority on Commonwealth issues and had a fine mind for its history.”
Founded in 1910, The Round Table provides analysis and commentary on all aspects of international affairs. The journal is a major source of coverage of policy issues concerning the contemporary Commonwealth and its role in international relations. It combines informed scholarship, opinion, and judgement, and draws its authors and readership from the worlds of government, business, finance and academe.
To submit or propose an article for publication in The Round Table, contact the Editor, Dr Venkat Iyer, at the School of Law, University of Ulster, Jordanstown campus, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB, or e-mail him at theroundtable@hotmail.co.uk.
Routledge, the foremost global publisher of policy-relevant books and journals in the Social Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious International Publisher of the Year award by the International Printers Network for the environmental sustainability of its publishing programmes. For further information please contact Jennifer McMillan, Library Marketing Manager, Taylor & Francis: Jennifer.McMillan@tandf.co.uk
Further information on The Round Table is available from www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ctrt.
- ends -
Media contact: Andrea Hutchinson, Marketing Executive
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN.
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 017 5344 Fax: +44 (0) 207 017 6713
Email: Andrea.Hutchinson@tandf.co.uk Website: www.informaworld.com/politicsandir
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